DEL MAR, Calif. - Abel Tasman, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2017 and the winner of two Grade 1 races at Belmont Park and Saratoga in June and August, may start in the Grade 1 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 30.

Trainer Bob Baffert said over the weekend that Abel Tasman emerged from a hard-fought win in the $671,000 Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 25 in excellent condition. The Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3 is the main goal of the autumn for Abel Tasman.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Sippican Harbor came out of her upset victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes “perfect” according to trainer Gary Contessa, but the filly won’t start again before the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Nov. 2 at Churchill Downs.

“Just train into the Breeders’ Cup,” Contessa said. “She ran twice in 20 days, that’s enough. I can’t see the perfect timing for another race, we’ll go in with a fresh horse.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – There are still decisions to be made over the next two months, but it is conceivable that Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott could have three horses in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Monomoy Girl may have a new challenger in the Grade 1, $1 million Cotillion Stakes at Parx on Sept. 22.

Separationofpowers, winner of the Grade 1 Test last month, could stretch out to 1 1/16 miles and two turns in the Cotillion, trainer Chad Brown said Saturday.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Army Mule, the fast but fragile colt, worked three furlongs in 39.88 seconds over Saratoga’s main track on Saturday in his first breeze since he won the Grade 1 Carter at Aqueduct on April 7.

“First breeze, easy three-eighths by himself, get him back under way,” trainer Todd Pletcher said.

Pletcher said he would love to get Army Mule to the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3, “but that’s a long way away, we have to figure out how we’re going to get there.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Code Warrior captured the Grade 3 Seaway Stakes in gate-to-wire fashion in here on Aug. 26, and could be making her way to Presque Isle Downs for her next start. Trainer Mike De Paulo said he is considering running her in the Grade 2, $400,000 Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes on Sept. 17.

Code Warrior recorded her third stakes victory of the year in the Seaway.

Hotshot Anna is a competent sprinter on turf and even better on dirt, but what she does far better than anything else is race over synthetic surfaces.

After easily winning the Chicago Handicap on June 23 over Arlington’s Polytrack surface, Hotshot Anna returned from a freshening to dominate the $100,000 Satin N Lace Stakes on Aug. 20 over Tapeta at Presque Isle Downs. That makes the $400,000 Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes on Sept. 17 an obvious spot for Hotshot Anna, and owner-trainer Hugh Robertson plans on doing the obvious.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – It took trainer Scott Becker just 10 years to amass 1,000 wins, but the irony is that the milestone, hit last week at Fairmount Park, comes during Becker’s slowest season since 2010.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Tyler Gaffalione will ride Mind Your Biscuits in the Grade 3, $200,000 Lukas Classic at Churchill Downs on Sept. 29. On Friday, Gaffalione got to test drive the highest money-earning New York-bred in history, guiding him through a five-furlong workout in 1:00.20 over Saratoga’s main track.

Working by himself after the mid-morning renovation break, Mind Your Biscuits got his final quarter in 24.54 seconds and proceeded to gallop out six furlongs in 1:12.70, seven furlongs in 1:25.49 and pulled up a mile in 1:39.42.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – On the final Sunday of the 2017 Saratoga meet, trainer Ralph Nicks sent out a debuting 2-year-old filly to win a seven-furlong maiden race at Saratoga at odds of 10-1.

That filly, Caledonia Road, would two months later win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and be crowned champion 2-year-old filly.

On Sunday, Nicks will send out another debuting 2-year-old filly in a seven-furlong maiden race at Saratoga. It is highly unlikely Graceful Princess will go off at similar odds as Caledonia Road.